Susan Kim Receives Nellie Pratt Elliot Award

May 23, 2010

Swimming Star Selected Yale's Top Female
Athlete

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Susan Kim, who was
named the Swimmer of the Meet at the Ivy League Championships in
February, is the recipient of the 2010 Nellie Pratt Elliot Award,
the most prestigious athletic award given to a senior female at
Yale. The award was presented at the Class Day exercises on May
23.

The Nellie Pratt Elliot Award goes to the senior woman whose
excellence in the field of athletics and in her life at Yale best
represents the ideals of sportsmanship and Yale tradition. It is
awarded in memory of Nellie Pratt Elliot, who was an assistant
director of undergraduate admissions at Yale for 46 years.

Kim, a Rockville, Md., native, enjoyed an outstanding career for
the Bulldogs. She is the Ivy League and Yale record holder in the
100- and 200-yard breaststroke and earned first team All-Ivy honors
five times.

As a senior this winter, she qualified for three events at the
NCAA Championships, finishing 12th in the 200
breaststroke, 32nd in the 100 breaststroke and
59th in the 200 individual medley. At the Ivy League
Championships, she won the 100 and 200 breaststroke and was part of
the winning 200 medley relay. She went undefeated in the 200
breaststroke during the season and won all but once in the 100
breaststroke. CollegeSwimming.com selected her as a mid-major
All-American, and she was also an Academic All-Ivy selection.

In her junior year, Kim won both the 100 and the 200
breaststroke at the Ivy League Championship to earn first team
All-Ivy honors in each event. She also swam in the finals in three
other events, including the 200 individual medley where she
finished fifth.

As a sophomore, she had a pair of top-five finishes at the Ivy
League Championships, placing third in the 200 breaststroke and
fifth in the 100 breaststroke. In her rookie year, she was part of
the 400 medley relay that set a Yale record at the Ivy League
Championship. Kim also earned second team All-Ivy recognition by
placing second in the 200 breaststroke.

At Yale, Kim is a member of Trumbull College and a political
science major.

The Elliot Award is presented in conjunction with the William
Neely Mallory Award for the top senior male student-athlete at
Yale. That award went to sailor Thomas Barrows.